Elk County OES Announces Life-Saving Initiative

Elk County Office of Emergency Services is pleased to announce it’s new partnership with PulsePoint. PulsePoint will embower everyday citizens with tools needed to save lives within their community. Phase 1 of the PulsePoint implementation tasks our office will building a database of AEDs located within the county.

The success of this program relies on the citizens of the county as the database is built by crowd-sourcing. That is, no one knows the county better than those who live here. We ask you, if you know the location of an AED please visit our AED Registration to submit your AED.

Illustrated below is a simplified flow of how the process works.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the future as we getting close to a full implementation of PulsePoint!

For your convenience you also download the PulsePoint app available for both iOS and Android.

About Post Author

Mark is the Quality Assurance Supervisor at the Elk County Office of Emergency Services where he is tasked with maintaining the agencies QA/QI standards as well as the the agency’s training program.
In addition to Mark’s current position, he also serves as the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Emergency Association as well as the Vice-Chair of the PEMA’s Training/Certification & Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Committee.